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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 18, 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He calls down a curse from heaven.
(b) He sits down and starts crying.
(c) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(d) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.

2. What is Evelyn Nesbit doing before her husband's trial?
(a) Writing her memoirs.
(b) Shopping for new clothes to wear to her husband's trial.
(c) Rehearsing what she will say on the stand.
(d) Having an affair with the doorman.

3. What does Houdini do in Germany?
(a) Hang from a flying plane by his teeth.
(b) Learn to pilot a Voisin.
(c) Learn to play the violin.
(d) Walk on the wings of a flying plane.

4. What does Mameh finally do to make extra money?
(a) Work as a roommaid in a hotel.
(b) Shoplift from small stores.
(c) Dance in a burlesque house.
(d) Submit to the advances of her employer.

5. How does Morgan dress?
(a) Simply, like a laborer.
(b) Fashionably for his day.
(c) Expensive clothes slightly out of fashion.
(d) Extravagantly, like a prince.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical abnormality does Pierpont Morgan have?

2. Why does Harry K. Shaw receive special privileges in jail?

3. What event is a great disappointment to Morgan?

4. What causes the Little Girl to stop working?

5. Who will be speaking at the meeting Evelyn goes to with Tateh and the girl?

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